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Development Through Adulthood: An Integrative Sourcebook

Robinson, Oliver PhD (Psychology)

Dr Oliver Robinson, PhD (Psychology) , is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich. He is the author of Paths Between Head and Heart: The Seven Harmonies of Science and Spirituality as well as other books and co-editor of A New Renaissance: Transforming Science, Spirit and Society. He complements his intellectual […]

The Life Play

Poynton, John, Professor MSc PhD

Professor John Poynton, MSc, PhD  is a past President of the Society for Psychical Research where he continues to fulfil a variety of duties as Hon. Secretary as well as other important academic work elsewhere. In 1992 he received an Order of Merit in South Africa. His life-long interests are […]

Tom McLeish

McLeish, Tom, Professor FRS

Tom McLeish FRS is Professor of Physics at Durham University. His scientific research over the last 25 years has contributed to the formation of the new field of ‘soft matter physics’ – interdisciplinary work with chemists, chemical engineers and biologists has sought to connect molecular structure and behaviour with emergent material […]

An Introduction to Neural Networks

Gurney, Kevin, Professor PhD MSc

Professor Kevin Gurney, MSc, PhD is co-leader of the Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, where he focuses on computational modeling but interacts with, and supports, experimental work in human psychophysics, neuroscience and robotics. One of the hallmarks of his research is building models at different levels of description: from individual conductance-based neurons, […]

The End of Modern Medicine: Biomedical Science Under a Microscope (SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought)

Foss, Laurence

Professor Laurence Foss received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1968 and taught philosophy at Fordham University in New York, 1967-1970. Uncomfortable with the philosophical foundations of Western philosophy, medicine, and art, for years he sought unsuccessfully for categories that would enable him to express this […]

Filmore, Paul Dr. PhD, MBA, MInstPhys, CPhys, FHEA, FRSA

Dr. Paul Filmore PhD, MBA, MInstPhys, CPhys, FHEA, FRSA Paul lectures in personal & professional development, entrepreneurship, electronics and business management, predominantly to postgraduates at the University of Plymouth, after having been a research physicist for many years. His current research is in creativity and break-through problem solving both for the individual […]

The Concise NHS Handbook 2013/14

Davies, Peter, Dr. PhD

Dr. Peter Davies MA, PhD graduated in engineering from Cambridge University in 1973 and did his PhD in biomedical engineering at McGill University in Canada. He then worked as a computer systems analyst before switching career to pursue an interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). In 1987, he was invited […]

Chaos, Information Processing and Paradoxical Games: The Legacy of John S Nicolis

Basios, Vasilieios, Dr. PhD

Dr. Vasileios Basios PhD spent his formative years working within the team of Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine at the Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry at the University of Brussels. Then after a short research post in the Belgian Royal Meteorological Service he became a senior researcher at the Physics Department […]

Exploring God-Talk: Using Language in Religion (Exploring Faith - Theology for Life)

Astley, Jeff, Professor, PhD

Professor Jeff Astley has been an honorary lecturer in the University of Durham since 1981, Honorary Professorial Fellow in Practical Theology and Christian Education since 1997, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion since 2012. He read Natural Sciences (specializing in the biological sciences) and then Theology at […]